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Bread.

  The smell itself had a powdery sweet reek that seemed to suggest mold – but I wasn’t sure.  It was Monday, and the fresh start of a new work week seemed like a good time to clean out the cabinet. So I steeled myself.  As I peered into it’s dark recesses of the break room cupboard, two or three possibilities caught my eye: a nondescript, unmarked tin of something, a box of bran cereal, and a half-eaten loaf of bread.  I chose the bread. The plastic bag was neatly twist tied, and the printing on the bag helpfully obscured the contents inside.  So I reached up and grabbed it to get a better look.  Perhaps this was the source, perhaps not... The inch of bread crust visible through the bag was fairly innocuous.  It looked bread-ish enough.  Still, I was suspicious.  So I opened the bag to see what was inside. To my surprise, it was not green, spotted or otherwise obviously moldy.  I was initially concerned that it didn’t look quite right, but the color of the bread was uniform –